QPix 3.2 ReadMe

Contact information

Escape
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54645 Thessaloniki
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Voice: +30 2310 811677
Fax:   +30 2310 811603

Technical support

Please visit our support pages for an overview of Escape Support and FAQs: http://www.escape.gr/q/q_support.html

When submitting a support request, please provide as much information as you can concerning the computing environment, platform, memory settings, other plug-ins, versions of OS, plug-ins, 4D, error codes returned by our products, as well as any other details that might help us reproduce whatever causes you trouble.

System Requirements

QPix 3 is available in 3 different platform versions:

Plug-in version	Plug-in files	Use with 4D	System requirements	QuickTime
Mac/PPC	In Mac4dx: QPix.4DX	4D 6.06 - 6.7x	MacOS 9 or later	v6 or later
Mac/Carbon	In Mac4dx: QPix.4CX	4D 6.8x or later	MacOS 9, MacOS X 10.2 or later
Windows	In Win4dx: QPix.4DX QPix.RSR QTMLGlue.DLL	4D 6.06 or later	Windows 98/2000/Me/XP

Note: If your database uses more Escape plug-ins, please make sure that you use the right versions. Versions you should use with QPix 3 are at least:

QMedia/QMediaLight 1.2.x
QDrop 1.1.x
QGrid 1.2.x

What's new in QPix 3.2

Enhancements

Major improvements in multi-page printing: when printing multi-page TIFF images or PDF documents all pages are now printed and the page range entered in the print dialog is now respected.
Major speedup of the validation phase when opening PDF documents.
Increased tolerance to errors coming from TWAIN devices during the capability negotiation phase.
The qpx_AcqPTPAllFileTypes acquisition option permits downloading of movies and audio clips (in addition to images) from digital cameras when acquiring with the PTP protocol. Mac OS X only.
The qpx_AcqStoreDeviceSettings and qpx_AcqRestoreDeviceSettings events are sent to the event handler method at appropriate times during an acquisition session, allowing the application to store and restore device settings as a BLOB if the device supports this capability. Currently supported by the Video protocol on Mac OS.
Improved handling of images with non-uniform resolutions, especially when creating thumbnails and when rotating.
All QPx_ExportXXX functions now always try to maintain the resolution of the input image.
Added missing qpx_CmdZoomToFit constant.
PICT files and 4D pictures containing vector data are now treated as color.

Bug fixes

Fixed a memory leak in the PDF importer on Mac OS X.
Fixed page orientation issues in the PDF importer.
Fixed a cosmetic issue with the scrollbar thumbs on Mac OS X.
Invalid metadata (such as dpi) are now removed from the Photoshop metadata resource in exported JPEG files. This was causing Photoshop to sometimes display erroneous values.
The image info dialog would display erroneous values for images that where edited in some way. Fixed.
Fixed a bug in PDF generation that would corrupt the output file.
Fixed an array range check error in the acquisition handler when running in compiled mode.
Trying to create a multi-page TIFF/PDF or to save a transcoded JPEG on the root directory on Windows (C:\) would return error -37 (directory not found).